C14 dating fossils

Love-hungry teenagers and archaeologists agree: dating is hard. Cart 0. Radiocarbon dating also referred to as carbon dating or carbon dating is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbona radioactive isotope of carbon. Your email address is used to log in and will not be shared or sold. Seventy years ago, American chemist Willard Libby devised an ingenious method for dating organic materials.

Showing Their Age

Archaeological finds worldwide have helped researchers to fill out the story of human evolution and migration.

Radiocarbon dating is a method that provides objective age estimates for carbon-based materials that originated from living organisms. Pike's team used to date materials that many rocks can be dated. The age of fossils can be determined using stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and radiocarbon dating. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Archaeologists use the exponential, radioactive decay of carbon 14 to estimate the death dates of organic material.